Key words Flashcards

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Transgressive criminology
(By Rob White)
Or how he calls it ‘proper criminology

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Proper criminology is about action which is deviant or harmful and which does not necessarily break the law.
It is a broader definition that can include corporate crime, green crime and state crime

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Alienation

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Feeling of disconnectedness, lack of interpersonal value and importance.

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Critical criminology

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Critical criminology is a way of looking at crime and deviance as something not inherently human, but shaped by social and economic conditions and power relations

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Protest

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Protest is an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid a certain outcome.

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Relativity

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Absence of standards of absolute and universal application.

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Profiling

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To categorise psychological and behavioural characteristics to asses or make predictions.

Can link to Typifications

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